Prison News

Illinois state prison inmates are among those who have been taking part in recovery efforts after last month's deadly tornadoes.

On her way to one of her first college classes this August, Laney Overton walked past towering coils of barbed wire and stepped through a metal detector.

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About 50 survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor paused Saturday at the site to honour those killed and remember the moment that plunged the U.S. into World War II.

He was with Nelson Mandela during all those years the anti-apartheid icon was imprisoned on Robben Island.

The New York State Police say two inmates at who died in custody at the Attica Correctional Facility likely overdosed on drugs.

This handout photo provided by the US Army, taken Oct. 26 shows a 10th Combat Aviation Brigade CH-47 Chinook helicopter, operated by members of the Texas and Oklahoma National Guard, flying a personnel and equipment movement mission over Kabul, Afghanistan.

North Korea freed an 85-year-old retired American soldier on Saturday after detaining him for more than a month for crimes it said he committed during the Korean War six decades ago.

Cuban Jewish leaders said Friday that they celebrated Hanukkah with imprisoned US government subcontractor Alan Gross this week, two days after he marked four years in custody.

My favorite TV shows this year were dour, cruel and often violent affairs - even my favorite reality-based show was about death.

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An Army sergeant charged with shooting a teenage girl in the head while another soldier killed her boyfriend outside Fort Stewart two years ago suffers from brain injuries and post-traumatic stress after serving in combat in Afghanistan, the sergeant's defense attorney said Friday.

A view of former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau during the marking the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops.

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The man faces sentencing Friday after pleading guilty to attempted murder in what authorities say was a plot to kill a couple in Southern California, in a case that highlights the reach of Mexican traffickers.

The monsoon rains have struck and the crowd remains huddled under a canopy, near plates of steaming food, as Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama strolls down the red carpet to open a waterfront picnic park in Fiji's capital, Suva.

As a wintry blast makes its way across the nation, Texas prepared for what one hardware store manager called "Ice Friday."

U.S. claims that dozens of Russian diplomats and their spouses cheated to get U.S. health-care aid meant for the poor drew a sharp rebuke Thursday from a top Russian official who blamed the criminal case on "Russophobic forces" interested in scuttling progress toward Russia-U.S. co-operation in confronting world conflicts.

An American chemistry teacher was shot to death as he was jogging in Benghazi on Thursday, highlighting persistently tenuous security in the eastern Libyan city where the U.S. ambassador was killed last year.

While the city's Metro-North Railroad is already getting hit with multimillion-dollar civil claims over a deadly commuter train derailment, prosecutors will face tough choices when deciding whether to bring criminal charges against the train's engineer, who told investigators he nodded or fell into a daze at the controls.